As warm weather approaches, health officials from the Pacific Northwest to the coast of Florida and on up the East Coast are warning shellfish lovers of the dangers of eating raw or undercooked oysters or other shellfish.

Reports from state health departments in New England show that the annual number of reported human cases of vibriosis from eating oysters have increased in recent years. Researchers wanted to know why this is happening.

Wellfleet -
Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH), and the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF), working with local health authorities have closed the shellfish beds in the town of Wellfleet due to a norovirus outbreak.

The increasing acidification of ocean waters is not only an environmental threat, but has become an economic threat, too, as the U.S. seafood industry grapples with yet another problem threatening the industry.

I just finished reading a borrowed, autographed copy of Mark Kurlansky's book entitled “Cod, A biography of the fish that changed the world” and decided that this is a book that I must have in my shelf so I can read it again. I purchased my own copy.

In previous years, oysters infected with a herpes virus have been found on French coasts, but now they've also been detected in the UK. Most die of the disease, a problem for fishers and gourmets. Unusually warm seawater may be the cause.

HAMBURG (dpa) - The common mussel is of one of the sea animals that early humans would have tasted first and for residents of tidal areas - especially in autumn and winter - they still make a tasty meal.German fishermen take their cutters out daily to ...

One hundred and four Vibrio parahaemolyticus isolates with the same DNA “fingerprint” were reported to PulseNet from persons in 13 states who became ill from May 12, 2013 through August 19, 2013. Of the 104 Vibrio parahaemolyticus isolates, 76 have been serotyped and all 76 were found to be serotype O4:K12.